If if's and buts were
pots and pans, there would have been no tinkers!
From
Navjot Singh Sidhu during the ongoing triangular
series:
-
Sidhu: Ah! Sodhi is a fighter! A real fighter!
He's like a rattlesnake!
In fact, if he fights with a rattlesnake, he'll
let the rattlesnake have the first 2 bites, and
then he'll fight! Martin: I thought when a
rattlesnake bites you you die the first time
around, Navjot! Sidhu: But not Sodhi!
Like I said, he's a fighter! A rattlesnake!
- Sidhu: Interesting, that the number on
their T-shirt indicates the nth cap for India!
Sodhi, for instance, is the 128th cricketer to
have played one-dayers for India! And he has 128
on his t-shirt!
Martin: So what number were you Navjot?
Sidhu: I was poor at maths Martin! I don't
remember! - Martin, Harbhajan
Singh has really begun well. As you know, a good
lather is half the shave!!!
- One day
cricket is like Fast Food! Nobody wants to cook!
(God help me with what THAT means).
- Sidhu:
Martin, you're like an Indian three wheeler that
sputters spatters, makes a lot of noise, guzzles
up a lot of diesel, but won't go beyond 30kmph!
Martin: I think that's an apt description of the
Indian batting, Navjot...
Techie one
---
- (When the Lankan pair was going along well..)
these two batsmen are the centrifugal force of
Lankan cricket!!
- (When the
famous Sodhi got hit for a four) Ah! The dibbly
dabbly rattlesnake Sodhi... bowls so slowly!!
- (When Ganguly took a near-vertical
skier of a catch, and the replay was being shown)
Ah! Ganguly is looking at the ball with the
utmost concentration... like the ball is an air-hostess,
high in the sky!!!
- (When a
batsman hit a handsome four, and was caught
staring at the bowler in the replay) Ah! That was
unnecessary! The batsman should realise that
what matters is the statement on the face, not
what you do with the bat!
- (When
Martin said that if the Lankans make 6 and over
now they'll end up with a total of 250...)
Martin, if if's and buts were pots and
pans, there would have been no tinkers! Repeat
after me, Martin! if if's and buts were pots and
pans, there would have been no tinkers!
Martin: Navjot, I think you should be a
school teacher...
- (after a
handsome four by Ganguly..) Wow.. he really took
the cake with a red cherry on top!
- (Commenting
on Ganguly after he was out for a low score in
the 2nd test against Zimbabwe)
...looks like a brooding hen over a china egg.
(In the
midst of a verbal duel with Tony Greig)
If ifs and buts were pots and pans,there would be
no tinkers.
(In the
midst of a verbal duel with Martin Crowe)
wickets are like wives ,you never know which way
they will turn.
(When India
were 8 for no loss against New Zealand)
The indians are going to make mincemeat of the
Kiwis and eat them with tomato sauce.
"cake
with the red cherry on top"
"as cool as cucumber"
"as wily as a fox"
He also compared relation between children and
persons to that between morning and today.
( Again, what does that mean, only GOD or Sidhu
knows)
(when
sachin hits a good short against zim)
and that is the vintage sachin we all know
(india's
last match against nz)
newzealanders are like bicycles in the cycle
stand, if one falls down the complete row will be
down
(in india's
match against srilanka)
a good lather is half the shave...
(to martin
crow in a match against newzealand)
india is going to crush kiwis and martin will
need a hanky at that time (later he offered a
towel instead of hanky when nz scored 209)
(referring
to kalu)
.... He is poky , short , & as agile as a cat.
(when
dharmasena skied the catch)
..... ball went up in the air , even air hostess
would have taken the catch
gap between
bat & pad is so much that even we would have
driven car through
that...
But the
classic Sidhu comment remains....
India's
problems can be summed up in one word... just
one, single word......... handling pressure!
and don't
forget this ultimate one
We all are the children of Adam it's the silk
that makes all the difference (Aaaaaarrgh....)
HAPPY
CRICKETING !
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